Sentences with phrase «treating all persons equally»

The Bible condemns the act and behavior, and not the person., However, We should treat all people equally, regardless of their partner and bedroom choices.

The attorney general has to protect our civil rights, level the playing field for our families and our communities, and ensure that our law and our government and our businesses are treating all people equally.

They consider humanity as a one entity and would treat people equally.

The commentary goes on to require a lawyer to take «reasonable steps to prevent or stop discrimination» (Commentary 13) and also «acknowledges the diversity of the community in Ontario in which lawyers serve and expects them to respect the dignity and worth of all persons and to treat all persons equally without discrimination» (Commentary 1)[emphasis added].

This promotion of personal values goes beyond respecting the dignity of individuals, respecting human rights laws, and treating all persons equally without discrimination.

• it is in the interests of the children involved that the pool from which prospective parents are drawn be as wide as possible; • discrimination on the ground of sexual orientation is a serious matter because it departs from the principle of treating people equally; • local authority evidence suggested that even if the charity were to close its adoption service, children would be placed through other channels; and • local authority evidence suggested that gay and lesbian people were suitable prospective parents for hard to place children, and that such adoptions have been successful.

Treating people equally is a basic obligation, a prima facie one, for which there is no formula for determining the occasion except knowing own's moral and ethical compass are fully functioning.

«consequence, the result of treating people equally when their situation is in fact different is a de facto inequality.

The Nebraska state motto, «Equality Before the Law,» was chosen as a founding principle for our state, rooted in the belief that the laws that govern us should treat all people equally

Not exact matches

And those views appear to feed the rural - urban divide: A 56 percent majority of rural residents says the federal government does more to help people living in and around large cities, while 37 percent feel they treat both urban and rural areas equally.

Just try to grasp a sense of decency or a justice system that treats all people fairly, equally.

Why was a «revelaton from god» needed at all if people were treated equally in the Mormon church from the beginning?

The essence of Christian behavior is to treat people as people, all equally loved by the same Father, however much they may differ in talents or development.

Secularism means using evidence to make sure that all people are being treated equally.

The additional point can be made that to the extent these people do in fact treat the whole Bible as equally sacred, they are using the whole of Scripture as their compass instead of Jesus of Nazareth.

The reason is that Jesus treated men and women equally as children of God and persons of supreme worth.

My parents have always taught me to treat everyone equally no matter how they choose to live their life and to be honest the people that I run into who judge people the most are the ones who believe they've been saved.

The concept of welcoming, acceptance, being heard, being treated equally, and being in a forever family are strong attractants for many people.

Maybe it's time to END all of your special rights, and make the law apply equally to the churches, and treat religious people like everyone else.

Into this male - centered world Jesus came, and with incomparable insight treated men, women, and children equally as persons.

I heard folks on both sides say they didn't care if the solution was one state or two state or no state — as long as all people were treated equally and with dignity.

Every person deserves the righ to be treated equally as long as they are a law abiding legal citizen!

I am a happy person, and much of that joy comes from my faith, but it would be hard to argue that I am treated equally at church.

Instead, go back to John Wooden, and treat people fairly, but not equally.

You'd hope, of course, that he's able to treat all that with the contempt it deserves (and, equally, that nobody actually tries to go through with anything), but it still stands as depressing evidence that simply being a high - profile person of colour is to risk, at every turn, being abused for the fact.

I have to work with and for people every day that offend me, insult me and would rather see me fired, imprisoned or banished than treated equally under the law.

Other changes to the existing law will mean people with mental illness will no longer have to prove their condition is clinically well - recognised in order to be covered by the DDA, and local authorities and private members» clubs will be legally obliged to treat disabled people equally.

A powerful influence on the boy, O'Hea taught Mugabe that all people should be treated equally and educated to the fulfilment of their abilities.

But the state should assert the rights of people in Britain, gay or straight, men or women, to be treated equally and well.

This can only happen in a society where people are not labelled or divided by their beliefs and where all voluntary and community groups and all volunteers are treated equally.

«We are in competition with them so we should all be treated equally, why should they favour some people over others?

They just want the right to marry the one person they love and be treated equally under the law.

In a statement, the group said in his capacity as a High Commissioner he is expected to be unbiased and treat all members of the Ghanaian community equally as the nation's development is based on the well - being of its people.

God forbidded people who call themselves democratic socialists like me though should demand that the majority population of these islands are treated EQUALLY with the others.

«I am proud to live in a country where our leaders understand and acknowledge the importance of celebrating diversity, and ensuring that all people truly are treated equally.

The use of excessive and lethal police force against people of color is a persistent problem nationwide and we must recommit ourselves to building a more just city and society where all people, regardless of color, are treated equally by law enforcement.

Instead, what we are seeing time and again is the courts upholding the rights of people not to be discriminated against on the arbitrary convictions of someone who does not wish to treat them equally.»

«Well, my intention was simply to let people know what I thought, which was that in this country we treat everybody equally and in accordance with the law — regardless of race, regardless of religion.

I entertain anyone person that I met and treat them fairly, honestly and equally not matter what..

14 Humankind maintains a legal way of thinking about equality, which was created by Aristotle: legal equality is to treat similarly situated people alike.15 Therefore, «equality» becomes the right to be treated like the white male given that white man's culture is the dominant culture.16 In this way, when people are not similarly situated we should not treat them equally.

Along the way, he helped people learn about the importance of treating transgender people fairly and equally.

However, as our history tells us, there were many people in our country that were American citizens who - for a long time - were not treated equally and who were denied the right to «Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.»

He treated all people, regardless of race or social situation, equally well.

The idea that one race of people would not be treated equally under the law was always 100 percent...

Unfortunately, too often people feel compelled to treat children equally.

On the quality of hospitality, Benny starts to say that they were treated better by the poorest people they met, but breaks himself off to formulate the thought differently: «We were hosted equally graciously by both the poor and the very rich and this makes our own desire to be good hosts much stronger.»

Indirect discrimination is a more complex area; it does not consider whether people have been treated differently but whether a «provision, criterion or practice» although applied equally to all employees has the effect of disadvantaging a person or people holding a «protected characteristic».

Just as we have to be careful to guard against prejudice against lawyers or self - represented persons, we also have to remember that everyone should be treated fairly and equally, regardless of their wealth, or representation status.

To ensure that people are treated equally and fairly before the law by educating policymakers and the public about the importance of civil legal aid in our communities and advocating for sufficient public funding for civil legal aid on behalf of low - income people in Washington State.

In the Court's view, in seeking leave to dismiss the charge against Mr. Sullivan, the United States Attorney is not being faithful to a cardinal principle of our legal system, i.e., that all persons stand equal before the law and are to be treated equally in a court of justice once judicial processes are invoked.